Chinese New Year Chinese Ink Painting & Calligraphy Workshop

Visual Arts Centre Chinese Ink Painting – Fan Painting Art Jamming
Professional Chinese Calligraphy & Ink Painting Course 专业水墨和书法课程

About this Professional Chinese Calligraphy & Ink Painting Course 专业水墨和书法课程

Every Saturday, 1pm-3pm at MacPherson studio, 10sessions at $680nett with all Chinese Calligraphy and Ink Painting materials provided

Bilingual guidance, English and Mandarin speaking. Suitable for non-Mandarin speakers that is interested in Chinese Calligraphy and Ink Painting culture!

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Searching for a Chinese Calligraphy and Ink Painting Workshop where you can create interesting art pieces to decorate your home during upcoming Lunar New Year?

Celebrate upcoming Lunar New Year by enrolling in a Chinese Calligraphy and Ink Painting Course with your friends and family! Visual Arts Centre presents Chinese Calligraphy and Ink Painting Course – Prosperity, Peace and Harmony for Lunar Year.

What is Chinese Calligraphy and Ink Painting?

对联Chinese New Year Calligraphy

Students will be introduced to learn the techniques, materials and skills required in Chinese Calligraphy and Ink Painting. The art form of Chinese ink painting is beautiful, with much oriental culture and background. 

 

How is this Professional Chinese Calligraphy and Ink Painting Course conducted?

The 10 sessions Professional Chinese Calligraphy and Ink Painting Course and/or 12 sessions Professional Chinese Ink Painting course is suitable for beginners with no previous experience and all nationalities are welcomed! The language of instruction will be taught in bilingual, both English and Mandarin, and students will be taught through detailed explanation, breakdown of Chinese calligraphy and Chinese Ink Painting brush techniques involved in each subject, and also step-by-step art demonstration and explanation. This systematic approach of learning Chinese Calligraphy and Ink Painting is great for learners who want to acquire a strong foundation and also suitable for those with previous practise to realign concepts, brush techniques and methods of practise.

 

What is this Professional Chinese Calligraphy and Ink Painting Course about?

Within this Professional Chinese Calligraphy and Ink Painting Course, students will be able to pick up Chinese Calligraphy brushstrokes and Ink Painting techniques

Starting from the foundation of Chinese Calligraphy and Ink Painting, learning subjects in relation to the Lunar New Year Season or four gentlemen such as the plum blossoms, spring flowers, rabbits, and introduction of landscape painting with creative abstraction with landscape painting, which you will gain an appreciation and understanding to Chinese Calligraphy brushstroke and Ink Painting practise and composition.

What can you learn from this Professional Chinese Calligraphy and Ink Painting Course? 

(1) Materials knowledge, brief history of Chinese Calligraphy and Ink Painting

2) Compositional skills, brushworks, techniques – through learning:

  • Explore Chinese New Year subjects such as golden mandarin, bamboo and spring flowers
  • Introduction to abstract/semi-abstract Chinese landscape painting
  • Chinese Calligraphy practise (to understand brushwork, calligraphy strokes)
  • Bring home a fan painting and a pair of calligraphy greeting squares of “吉”、”祥”、”平安”、”万福” representing luck, auspicious, peace, blessing.

Creative Chinese Calligraphy and Ink Painting on scroll for prosperity!

Perhaps you’ve tried oil painting, or even acrylic painting, but just a disclaimer: Chinese Ink Painting is nothing like those. Chinese Ink Painting is more similar to watercolour, and the key to it lies in the poetic feeling it is meant to achieve. The ratio between water and Chinese Ink Painting is what’s most important here. For those who have not tried this Chinese Calligraphy and Chinese Ink Painting art form, do not hesitate to give it a try – it will open your eyes to a whole new world of creative expression!

Chinese ink painting can be done on the traditional fan! Participant completes her fan painting

Auspicious Plum blossom painting on fan!

Chinese Calligraphy and Ink Painting on Fan/ Scroll/ Rice Paper / Couplet writing Team bonding team building art jamming Visual Arts Centre Singapore

Workshop conducted for Chinese Ink Painting! We also do Chinese Ink Painting Team Building!

Chinese Ink Painting is different from other forms of painting. It relies on the artist’s ability to capture the essence of the subjects and using limited inks and colours to portray it on to a painting. The aesthetic principles of Chinese Ink Painting relies heavily on the spirit of the subject, not the likeness of forms.

Chinese Calligraphy Scroll that can be displayed at the sides of your door!

About Teacher MoNi

Mo Ni’s art is a passionate reflection of the soul of nature and the inherent infinite opportunity offered by nature’s creations. Rich, fluid and robust colours accompanied by a combination of expressive representation of how nature and life entwine, has offered her audience a unique visual experience that evoke limitless imagination. Over the years, Mo Ni’s artworks have been favoured by collectors from all over the world. Moni is a renowned ink painter in Singapore and a disciple of Mr. Sun Qifeng, a master of Chinese painting. Her ink and wash works are dashing in brushstrokes and sound in images, with both meaning and spirit, and have won many awards. Her most famous series of Hu Ji is bold in color and bold in brushwork, with both solid brushwork outlining structural lines and ink painting splashes of color in capitals.

Mo Ni is truly a globalized citizen, she frequently travels between Asia, North America and the Europe continents in searching of novel inspiration for her artwork. She is deeply committed to the beliefs that “art is the creation of life”, and masterfully blends a variety of different mediums including oil, acrylic, traditional Chinese ink and color to create contemporary masterpieces. Mo Ni’s art is a passionate reflection of the soul of nature and the inherent infinite opportunity offered by nature’s creations. Rich, fluid and robust colors accompanied by a combination of expressive representation of how nature and life entwine, has offered her audience a unique visual experience that evoke limitless imagination. Over the years, Moni’s artworks have been favored by collectors from all over the world.

What is Chinese Ink Painting and the subjects?

Chinese Ink Painting is a representation of Chinese Art. Basic Chinese ink painting features the water and ink, black and white. Delving deeper into the Chinese Ink Art, there is the meticulous paintings of flowers like peonies and birds, with its vibrant colours, are also known as Chinese Ink Painting. 

The features of Chinese Ink Painting are realistic representation close subjects,  abstraction of distant subjects, subtle colors and a rich artistic conception.
 
With a brush loaded with ink and water, compose your Chinese ink paintings on rice paper. Chinese ink painting involves blending and tactful composition, expressing the essence and spiritual elements of  the subjects.

Professional Chinese Calligraphy & Ink Painting Course Details:

Date: every Sat

Time: 1PM-3PM 

Venue: Macpherson Art Studio (MRT Exit A Left turn), 140 Paya Lebar Road, #03-04 AZ@ Paya Lebar Building, Singapore 409015

Suitable age group: Adults & Children ages 7 years old* and above. (Children ages 7 – 11 years old to be accompanied by an adult)

Visual Arts Centre Macpherson

Address: AZ@Paya Lebar, 140 Paya Lebar Road, #03-04, Singapore 409105

Exit from Macpherson MRT Station Exit A and turn left, we are right across the road, 1 minute walk away!

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No refunds is provided. A one to one replacement is allowed, following the original registrant’s course validity 

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